Making Connections: Designing Undergraduate Internships as a Bridge to a More Diverse Library Profession
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2025-02-27
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Dahl, Candice
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Libraries can become more welcoming places for all when they reflect, understand, and connect with their communities of users. Though recruiting a more diverse student body into the profession of librarianship is seen as one way to build these bridges, efforts to do so are not always successful. It is therefore encouraging that the student body of the undergraduate library internship course at the University of Saskatchewan has become more diverse since the course was first offered 2017, as many who register are exploring librarianship as a potential career path. Learn what factors might be influencing participation and consider how academic librarians’ connections with undergraduates could encourage greater inclusion of underrepresented backgrounds (e.g. minoritized groups, STEM disciplines) in librarianship. Ideally these efforts will help position libraries to connect with more diverse communities in informed and meaningful ways.
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Experiential Learning, Academic Libraries, Internship
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Dahl, C. (2025, January). Making Connections: Designing Undergraduate Internships as a Bridge to a More Diverse Library Profession. Ontario Library Association Super Conference, Toronto, ON.
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Ontario Library Association Super Conference